Wednesday, November 3, 2010
Columbus Blue Jackets backup Mathieu Garon won his third game of the season with a 3-0 shutout against his former team, the Montreal Canadiens. Although he has played five less games than starting goalie Steve Mason, he only has one less win than the former Calder Trophy winner. In addition to receiving good goaltending, the [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, September 12, 2010
Andrew Cogliano defines speed. He broke the speed record at the AHL All Star game (later taken by Bobby Sanguinetti) and has already played three full 82 game seasons with the Edmonton Oilers. At 23-years-old he recently signed a one-year, one-way and one million dollar contract. Nicholas Cotsonika of Yahoo! Sports recently wrote on Cogliano’s [...]
Continue reading...Friday, July 23, 2010
Ethan Moreau, check. Steve Staios, check. Patrick O’Sullivan, check. Now Shawn Horcoff, errr Robert Nilsson has left the team with both another open spot after being bought out by the Oilers earlier this season. According to Jim Mathieson of the Edmonton Journal, Nilsson will leave for Salavat Yulaev in Ufa, Russia, in the Kontinental League. [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, June 1, 2010
Offensive Corps: Dustin Penner led the Oilers in goals, assists, points, powerplay goals and shots. To be honest he represented the lone offensive threat once Ales Hemsky went down with injuries. His 63 points marked a career-high in his fourth full NHL season. At this point, expect Penner to continue to carry the offense and [...]
Continue reading...Saturday, November 28, 2009
As I mentioned yesterday, there were rumours circulating that Oilers star Ales Hemsky would require surgery to fix a shoulder problem. Well, these rumours were true and Hensky will miss the rest of the season. A hit from behind by Michal Handzus aggrevated a nagging shoulder injury, and Hemsky said he could no longer play [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, September 3, 2009
Edmonton Oilers 2008/09: 38-35-9 – 85 pts (4th in Northwest, 11th in West) Arrived: Nikolai Khabibulin (CHI), Mike Comrie (OTT) Departed: Dwayne Roloson (NYI), Kyle Brodziak (MIN), Ales Kotalik (NYR) The only thing worse than a disappointing 2008-09 campaign for the Edmonton Oilers was an even worse 2009 off-season. They swapped team MVP Roloson for [...]
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